Gas pipeline from Turkey to north ‘to be operational in 2028’

The planned natural gas pipeline linking Turkey and northern Cyprus will be operational in 2028, the north’s ‘public works minister’ Erhan Arikli told the Turkish Cypriot legislature on Tuesday.

“This project will be implemented through around 97 kilometres worth of pipelines, starting in Alanya and reaching either the Teknecik power station or another area in the TRNC,” he said. Alanya is a city on Turkey’s southern coast, while the Teknecik power station is located east of Kyrenia....